I'm Going To Write My Democratic Congressman Tomorrow about BBV

[Syrinx]

And I urge everyone else to do the same. We've got to go back to pen and paper. We have no other choice.

Thank you.

[bullimiami]

1. good idea

i will to. mine is kendrick meek. good guy.

[Syrinx]

6. this is my rep, Artur Davis, Alabama-7

He's a good guy... not a super-liberal, but a good Democrat.

[Syrinx]

2. oh yeah, write John Kerry about it too

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

3. My sister already wrote to Feinstein

Told her to push for uniform election times throughout the country, as well as tax credits for voting (attach voter registration to tax forms so there'll be a paper trail). She urged me to write my senators, but Specter and Santorum? A fat lot of good that'll do!

[Syrinx]

7. is your rep a Democrat?

If not, write to all the Democratic reps from your state, even if they don't represent your district.

[rockydem]

4. What is the evidence that BBV was involved in this election?

I understand the need for caution in the future - but is there evidence that they were abused this time around?

[Syrinx]

5. something was definitely up, check out this thread from last night

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1292142

EDIT: Darn, it's archived. Here's the text. (Sorry, I don't remember who posted it.)

The assertion by pundits/Bushies that exit polling was 'way off', and
thus, exit polls, which showed an easy Kerry victory in both Ohio and
Florida, were incorrecty skewed and did not represent the electorate, is
completely bogus.

This is disproved in minutes by simply noting the entire rest of the
suite of exit polls conducted by AP and distributed to the news media.
View here:

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/presiden... /

Notice, if you will, that states with a narrow or wide Bush margin of
victory NOT called Ohio or Florida, project perfectly. Missouri leans to
Bush in exit polls, and leaned to him in the vote. Tennessee likewise
was favorable to Bush in exit polls, and it showed in the final results
with a clear Bush margin of victory. Pick a state, any state, there is
not one single exit poll off by more than a few percentage points in any
semi-competitive race. Not one.

Except 2. Ohio and Florida, the latter of which has already been
"awarded" to Bush, and the former, which appears to nearly be a lock for
him as he is up 3 percentage points with 80 percent of the electorate
tallied. George Bush's win in each of these 2 states is nowhere near
what exit polls suggest. In Ohio, Kerry had a small but noticeable lead
with both male and female voters, a rare thing for him as males have
tended to favor Bush in this election by a small margin. Likewise,
independent voters clearly broke for Kerry, by a 21 percent margin,
60-39. This is not anywhere near the result we are seeing now, and along
with Florida, whom I will get to in a moment, it is a clear and blatant
sign of voter fraud. I don't use that most dangerous of "F" words
lightly, but I must call a wolf a wolf and a sheep a sheep, and this
whole setup stinks like Karl Rove after he's ran 15 feet.

Florida, as opposed to simply trending for Mr. Bush, has already been
"awarded" to him by the media, who all glibly fail to mention the fact
that the exit polling yet again does not match up with the result. Did I
mention a moment ago that this and Ohio are the only examples of the
exit polling not matching up? I'm pretty sure I did... According to the
final tally (which some claim isn't final due to absentee, but I
digress) George Bush has received a whopping 340,000 more votes than
John Kerry, running away to a 52-47 victory and grabbing all 27 of
Florida's electoral votes in the process. However, there is this matter
of the exit polls, which I believe I have mentioned a few times in this
article: While Mr. Kerry had 6 percent less support from his party than
Mr. Bush did, he scored among woman yet again (54 percent of Florida's
electorate) by a 52-48 margin, small but important, while losing men (46
percent of the electorate) 47-52, essentially the same margin.
Independents, however, broke heavily for John Kerry, favoring him a
staggering 60-38 over Mr. Bush. At the very least, this would suggest a
very close race, and certainly not the lopsided blowout it turned out to
be.

As Joe Pesci once said, "Something is fishy in Florida."

Ohio too, Joe. Ohio too.